Description
The Internal Medicine Clerkship serves as a focal point of third-year education. It is the backbone of training in medicine and during this rotation students will experience the breadth and diversity of disease. Students learn both the science and the art of medicine and how the two complement each other. Students will expand history and physical diagnosis skills, develop the ability to prioritize patient problems and generate a differential diagnosis, and implement patient management strategies and observe their effects. Internal Medicine involves problem-solving, finding all the pieces of the puzzle and putting them together in a way that makes a coherent picture. It is also an opportunity to view the patient as a whole, to understand how a disease impacts not only on the patient?s health, but also on his or her emotional and social well-being.